The Weekly Tech Rant with Jay and Karl

This week we covered: News UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE Apple’s iPadOS will have to comply with EU’s Digital Markets Act too Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased F

This week we covered: News US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas robot is a swiveling, shape-shifting nightmare After Embracer Group's acquisitions and subsequent troubles, the company is splitting into three oddly-named entities Meta Rebranding Quest Software Horizon OS, Will Run On New Headsets From ASUS, Lenovo, More The full Snap

This week we covered: News FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison Microsoft hiring Inflection team triggers interest from EU's antitrust chief D-Link issues rip and replace order for besieged NAS drives Elon Musk returns to his ultimate galaxy brain plan for Twitter: charging people to post Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions R

This week we covered: News Super Soaker spiritual successor Spyra just shrank its USB-C water blaster SpaceX is reportedly building a network of spy satellites for US intelligence Apple acquires fundamental AI smarts by buying DarwinAI Apple might use Google Gemini to power some AI features on the iPhone US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones Rumours iPhone 17 rum

This week we covered: News House passes bill that bans TikTok unless ByteDance sells Roku hackers breach 15,000 accounts and are selling them online Epic Games just got unbanned by Apple — again Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems Microsoft’s AI Copilot for Security launches next month with pay-as-you-go pricing SpaceX is cleared to

This week we covered: News The MacBook Air gets an M3 upgrade. Here are the new iPhone case and Apple Watch band colors for spring That 189GB Epic Games "hack" may have been a scam aimed at other hackers VMware EUC by Broadcom to be Acquired by KKR Apple hit with first-ever EU fine following Spotify complaint Bambu Lab Mini A1 Rumours New CAD renders reveal iPhone S

This week we covered: News Samsung has big ambitions for the Galaxy Ring MWC 2024: all the phones, wearables, and gadgets announced in Barcelona Nvidia’s role in the AI wave has made it a $2 trillion company As $500m EU fine looms, Apple accuses Spotify of wanting ‘limitless access’ to its tools for free Killing the Apple car is depressing and sad Meta and Microsoft ask E

This week we covered: News iMessage antitrust threat removed, as EU says it’s not a dominant service Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software After trying the Vision Pro, Mark Zuckerberg says Quest 3 ‘is the better product, period’ Xbox Updates Microsoft con

This week we covered: News Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees Meta ‘optimistic’ about Vision Pro as it hopes to be the ‘Android’ of the AR/VR world Apple… Hell has frozen over Apple announces reduced commission structure for apps in Europe Apple announces support for third-party iPhone app stores in the EU, coming with iOS 17.4 Apple says

This week we covered: News The Apple Vision Pro will launch in February Prescription lenses for Vision Pro to cost $149 – far less than predicted iPhone from onboard Alaska Airlines incident found; survives 16,000-foot drop Intel's next gen Battlemage GPUs are up and running in its labs, and work on its next-next generation Celestial architecture is well underway Xreal Air